Nick Soetaert
Software Engineering Manager at Nextracker Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Soetaert is a software engineering manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building large-scale IoT and PV simulation systems. At Nextracker he progressed from intern to manager, owning backend data infrastructure for over 1.3 million distributed solar devices and now leading a team to emulate utility-scale PV systems. He is hands-on with Go, Spark/Scala, Kafka, TimescaleDB, Docker Swarm and Azure, and has repeatedly shipped resilient, data-intensive systems that operate at grid scale. Nick pairs deep technical ownership with cross-departmental leadership, having led multi-team projects that bridge device telemetry, data pipelines, and cloud services. He brings a pragmatic focus on observability and scalability informed by running production IoT fleets and building simulation tooling to validate operational behavior.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Cal Poly HumboldtProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NickSoetaert/Yerba-Chess-Engine
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
An in-progress UCI chess engine written in Go
Contributions:6 PRs, 72 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years
golangucichess-enginein-progressuci-chess-engine
NickSoetaert/Blackjack
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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